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Bessie B Epps 1904 - 1997

Bessie B Epps of Portland, Multnomah County, OR was born on July 24, 1904, and died at age 93 years old on September 15, 1997.

Bessie B Epps

Portland, Multnomah County, OR 97211

July 24, 1904

September 15, 1997

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1904

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July 24, 1904

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1997

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September 15, 1997

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In 1904, in the year that Bessie B Epps was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.

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In 1931, she was 27 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

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